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Show War Bond Drive At Wasco, Calif., Directed By Two Former Dixieites The F. F. A. auction held last week in Wasco, Calif., for the Fourth War Bond drive netted j a total of $121,450, according to reports ' sent" to the Washington County News, the program having been under the direction of two former Dixieites, P. D. Spilsbury, former vocational instructor at Dixie junior college and high school, and Merl L. Tobler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Tobler of Santa Clara. Just what was auctioned for the drive was not stated in the report, but indications are that the Future Farmers organization collected agricultural products and 1 these were put over the block by Charlie Adams, known as California's Cali-fornia's leading auctioneer, and boosted the net proceeds of the 1944 bond sale auction $50,000 higher than the similar event last year. . Both Mr. Spilsbury and Mr. Tobler are proud of the patriotic patri-otic response of their F. F. A. organization org-anization to this call of the United States treasury, says the report. |